Silicon Valley is raiding tech academia: “Uber would like to buy your Robotics Department”

if you want to know what is wrong with academia, it is petty administrators compensating themselves far in excess of faculty and researchers…while pushing paper and lording over the brains of the institution.

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I think Martinis is still affiliated with UCSB, right?

They didn’t so much buy them away as fund a group on site. (I have no idea what it is that Microsoft is getting out of it. At least, what it is they are getting out of it more than anyone else is.)

It appears to be just a joint project, so: I guess so.

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